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ABILITY-TO-PAY PRINCIPLE: A principle of taxation in which taxes are based on the income or resource-ownership ability of people to pay the tax. The income tax collected by our friends at the Internal Revenue Service is one of the most common taxes that seeks to abide by the ability-to-pay principle. In theory, the income tax system is set up such that people with greater incomes pay more taxes. Proportional and progressive taxes follow this ability-to-pay principle, while regressive taxes, such as sales taxes and Social Security taxes, don't.
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NATIONAL INCOME AND PRODUCT ACCOUNTS The official government system of collecting, processing, and reporting assorted production and income measures used to track aggregate activity in the macroeconomy. This system of accounts, maintained by the Bureau of Economic Analysis in the Department of Commerce, is the source of official estimates of gross domestic product, net domestic product, national income, personal income, disposable income, gross national product, and related measures.
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Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time flipping through the yellow pages trying to buy either a rechargeable battery for your camera or a coffee cup commemorating the first day of spring. Be on the lookout for infected paper cuts.
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Ragnar Frisch and Jan Tinbergen were the 1st Nobel Prize winners in Economics in 1969.
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"If you wouldn't write it and sign it, don't say it." -- Earl Wilson, Columnist
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AFC
Average Fixed Cost
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